I usually try to use the honest method, but there are times where I use tactics like that. For example: My village depression has ended thanks to a rare item aprearing on the beach. I dropped every single kid in the village on it (quite alot, since I overbred which was what caused this whole fiasco!) and they all picked it up. So I got the last 10,000 points I needed. Lucky too, as the food was getting really low.
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When climbing the ladder of success, always remember. You can help as many people as you want- but in the end they'll get up there first and drop wet, sticky things on your head.